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Auction: 24029 - Stamps and Covers of Great Britain
Lot: 5377

Great Britain
1841-53 One Penny Red-Brown
"Black" Plates
Plate 5: TD, close to large margins all round tied by cloth-wrapped Maltese Cross in black to 1841 (20 June) entire letter from Birmingham to Sheffield with despatch and arrival d.s. in black and red respectively. Fine and rare.

literature:
Illustrated in "Encyclopaedia of the Maltese Cross", Rockoff and Jackson, Volume 1, Page 52; this being the clearest example.

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£450

Starting price
£210